Classical Stamps

From the same set the 2 C.-value.Different colour-tones or maybye oxidated ?

 

2 printings of fishy stamp
1880 -red orange
1887 - orange
Both same value

Reunion SG 197 YV 189.......France Libre Overprint from 1943
1. Used copies are more difficult to find than unused
2. As the highest value it is generally forged esp. in unused, so used is actually safer to find used provided the overprint is below the cancel
This is a genuine

Letters in a straight line, the right leg of the n is short, the 2nd e is higher than the first one, no letters touch

These are from some generally high calibre auctions but still fakes

Letters tilt down


Ovpt is smaller and letters touch


The F & L are too thick and lacking genuine traits

 

Sorry I did not know that you were aware about the cod stamps or the fact that most France Libre stamps are fakes and how to tell them apart. So much knowledge here.
I am impressed or maybe disappointed and wondering what you are talking about.
I tried to impart some information that appeared lacking and requested.
Your reply is like Stampboards or their moderator. Perhaps this other member can better assist you.
Maybe you know how to look up my IP address 194.187.251.4 in Belgium
Sorry to have troubled you - .
Regards - and good luck with other members
Francois Richard {FRstamps}

 

One of my favourite countries of the classical times:
Mecklenburg-Schwerin

issued July 1st,1856
Mecklenburg-Schwerin had a head post office and a "post expedition" in
Hamburg.

 

Sorry I cannot help it
The image leaves me at loss over is this 2a or 2b or some new variety


2a dark chrome yellow


2b Yellow Orange

Hopefully Don will like

 

issued Dec.1865 (ordinary paper),on laid paper issued Sept.1864
Same stamp,but with dotted background,rouletted,issued July 1st,1864 is
expensive.
Same stamp,but with dotted background imperforated,issuedJuly 1st,1856.
The stamps could be used intact as 1 Schilling,or seperated into all possible
units. A single 1/4 Schilling cannot exist on mail alone,but in combination with other stamps only.

So,Annie,get your gun !

 

1864 Mi 4

Surely this one deserves a like???



Maybe this MI 7 & 8 gets a like?




If you really like I will show the backs also

 

5 Schilling ordinary paper,issued Sept.1864

Mecklenburg-Schwerin issued 8 stamps only.None of those is cheap,but only
one,the rouletted 4/4 Schilling with dotted background from 1864 is expensive.
It is often faked by either rouletting the 1856 imperforated one or by adding
the dots onto the one,issued later in the same year (1864).The same I showed
before,issued in Dec.1856,but this on laid paper.

 

I. The rouletted points on the stamp NEVER show up that well. Don't stay on when stamps separated
2. There should be some specific breaks in 3 spots on crown
3. The top serif on first top E should slant more
4. The frame lines on the bottom too uneven and wavy
5. Right E is wrongly slanted and all letters not in straight line
6. The cross is wrong shape
7. Fake perfs on Fake stamp

 

Although India is one of the countries I collect,I do not own many classics.
So,no "Scinde Distric Dawks",but:

upper stamp: one Anna,issued Oct.1854
(there is also a 1/2 and a 2 Annas)
lower stamp: eight Annas,bluish paper,issued Oct.1855.(4 As.is missing)

 

I only have a few of these but Mr Salentin said on this forum and on TSF that it is OK to post catalog images of stamps you don't have.
Enjoy I have a few hundred pages to post.

So I start with Papal States

 

More of same

 

Still more I have not

 

Last Papal state stamps


Next other Italy States...

 

Again the 1854 1 Anna definitive:
upper: plate I hair and chignon rather white
lower plate II hair and chignon seperated by a white line,smudged print
Plate description according to Michel !

 

Well Michel is definitely the authority
HOWEVER it does not take into account plate wear prevalent with these so you need to use more than chignons and white spaces to identify them